<p>but wouldn’t that be the opposite of sexism? unless you wanna argue that i’m intelligent, which you probably don’t LOL</p>
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<p>I feel like you just walked into a really obnoxious comeback that’s about to come from somewhere. :)</p>
<p>After thinking about it for awhile, I came to a conclusion of why guys have higher SAT scores on average. </p>
<p>I read earlier (and then googled, although I only looked at two sites) that males have more IQ values on the extremes and that females tend to be centered around the mean (less extreme values intelligence wise). </p>
<p>A 800 compared to a 700 would only be a couple of questions, but a 300 compared to a 400 could be nearly a 10 question difference. This means people on the lower intelligence extremes would not impact the average score as much as people on the higher intelligence extremes. </p>
<p>Does this make sense to anyone else?</p>
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<p>oh no, don’t get me!</p>
<p>Patton, that is a very interesting analysis and well thought out. It’s a definite possibility.</p>
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<p>This is plausible, but how do we know that the SAT measures the same thing IQ tests measure?</p>
<p>There were studies of SAT and ACT scores’ correlation with IQ and the result was an r^2 value of .72 for the SAT and .6 something for the ACT.</p>
<p>So…we all agree that boys and girls are different?</p>
<p>Okay. I’ve known that since I was like 4.</p>
<p>Isn’t the reason why girls get lower scores is because guys tend to play videogames in high school and those video games actually have some advanced sat vocabulary words?
Throughout my experience, the SAT vocab I know are mostly the ones I saw while playing video games like warcraft. Their item naming is so FANCY :).</p>
<p>Peerless penchants…etc
Guys being more addicted to games got more accustomed to such vocabs while girls who aren’t as much into games did not have opportunity to be in an environment where such high level vocabs are commonly used… :l</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure if SAT did not test vocab, girls would get higher scores :P</p>
<p>@AccCreate</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I really don’t agree. Your answer is based too much on stereotypes, imo, and having played a lot of video games myself, I don’t really see as much high-level vocabulary as you attribute to them.</p>
<p>At any rate, I haven’t sloughed through this bloodbath of a thread completely, but I find myself agreeing with Patton (just going off of what I learned in various Psychology courses).</p>
<p>I probably learned much of my high level vocab from reading the “classics.” This was way before video games. ;)</p>
<p>May be what girls thinking is just how to go on party. I saw a video of some college students who waste their time going to the party or just do to some department store buying some expensive jewelry. While men, even they are lazy at times and not coming to school often, we still have this stock knowledge in our brain memory. We used to specializes in learning even without reviewing or something like that.</p>
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<p>Umm idk if your source is credible enough 
they’re not the ones who make the Sat or the Act, why don’t you go check on College board, last time i checked through out the past 10 yrs (even til today) girls have been kickin ass and getting higher results on the SAT then boys 
Sorry lassy but your argument is invalid.</p>
<p>^Seriously?
<a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/TotalGroup-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2013/TotalGroup-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Funny, What got Larry Summers fired from Harvard si what people here are using as “evidence”</p>
<p>I regret ever asking this question. It wasn’t supposed to be so controversial, but all the answers kind of made me look at the CC community differently. </p>
<p>I think in the end all of these explanations have some influence on the scores, but too many people are claiming it’s black-and-white. A little insulting to both genders.</p>
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<p>That’s interesting. In what way?</p>
<p>Haha. Reminds me of a similar argument we used to have in about 5th grade: Are boys smarter or girls? </p>
<p>Almost everyone said boys were smarter, but I knew <em>I</em> was smarter than any of the boys I knew. What a puzzlement. :D</p>
<p>^ awwwwwwwwww</p>